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People
Century and Nationality
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History
Undergraduate 2
10/28/2009

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Zheng He/Cheng Ho
Definition
Chinese, 15th. Big Ships
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Fan Kuan
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Chinese, 990-1020, Travelers Amid Mountains and Streams
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Jan Hus
Definition
Czech/Romanian, 14th-15th, influenced by Wyclif. Authority rests with scripture, denounced indulgences
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Limbourg brothers
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Dutch, 14th-15th. Book of Hours
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Erasmus
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Dutch, 15th
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Rembrandt
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Dutch, 17th, The Prodigal's Son
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Chaucer
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English, 14th, Canterbury Tales
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Wyclif
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English, 14th. 1st English Translation
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Christopher Marlowe
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English, 16th Century, Shakespeare contemporary
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Shakespeare
Definition
English, 16th-17th
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Van Eyck
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Flemish, 15th, Marriage of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Bride
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Josquin Desprez
Definition
France/Belgium, 15th-16th, famous composer
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Calvin
Definition
French, 16th
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Luther
Definition
German, 15th-16th
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Dürer
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German, 15th-16th, Four Horsemen and the Apocalypse.
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Dante
Definition
Italian, 14th
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Petrarch
Definition
Italian, 14th
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Brunelleschi
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Italian, 14th & 15th. Dlorence's Duomo
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Giotto
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Italian, 14th, Arena Chapel, bell tower in florence cathedral
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Boccaccio
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Italian, 14th, Decameron
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Christine de Pisan
Definition
Italian, 14th-15th
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Donatello
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Italian, 14th-15th. Bronze David, contraposto
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Columbus
Definition
Italian, 15th
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Piero della Francesca
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Italian, 15th, Duchess of Urbino and Federico da Montefeltro
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Leonardo
Definition
Italian, 15th-16th, Last Supper, Mona Lisa
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Murasaki asa Shikibu
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Japan, 11th Tale of Genji
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Ibn Rushd (Averroes)
Definition
Moroccan, 12th
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Bosch
Definition
Netherlands, 16th, Garden of Earthly Delights. Temptation of St. Anthony
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Peter Brueghal
Definition
Netherlands, 16th, Triumph of Death and The Wedding Dance
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Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
Definition
Persion 11th
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Magellan
Definition
Portuguese, 16th, Circumnavigates the globe
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Vasco da Gama
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Portuguese, 16th, Europe to India around Africa
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Cervantes
Definition
Spain, 16th, Don Quixote
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Cortez
Definition
Spanish, 16th
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Zwingli
Definition
Swiss, 15th-16th, Swiss reformation
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